August 22, 2025
The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati is pleased to welcome Michael Auslin, Ph.D., as the American Heritage Partners Research Fellow. The fellowship will support research for Auslin’s book entitled National Treasure: How the Declaration of Independence Made America. Timed for the 250th anniversary of American Independence and to be published by Simon & Schuster, National Treasure will be the first complete history of the Declaration of Independence, from 1776 to the present.
Michael Auslin has been named the American Heritage Partners Research Fellow of the American Revolution Institute (Photo credit: Hoover Institution)
“Dr. Auslin is a multi-faceted scholar, and his new work on the Declaration of Independence will be a useful and fresh addition to the field of Revolutionary-era scholarship. We are honored to have Michael Auslin join our fellowship ranks and are eager to support his important work.” says Andy Morse, executive director of the Society of the Cincinnati, Inc.
Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and previously was an associate professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of the award-winning Negotiating with Imperialism and the bestselling The End of the Asian Century, among other books. Auslin is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and he serves on the board of the American Ditchley Foundation. Among his honors are being named a Fulbright Scholar, a German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He advises both government and corporations on geopolitical risk, and he addresses civic groups and media worldwide.
About the American Revolution Institute Research Fellowships
The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati encourages advanced study of and publication on the importance and legacy of the American Revolution through its fellowship program. Fellows, most of whom work from the research library at our headquarters in Washington D.C., receive support to explore the library and museum’s collections related to their project. Strengths of the collections are materials relating to the art of war in the eighteenth century, documents regarding the conduct of the Revolutionary War, primary sources that provide context for the achievement of the American forces and their French allies in securing the independence of the United States, personal narratives from the war and the archives of the Society of the Cincinnati. Several fellowships are also available to support research in early American history including the colonial era.